Have been skiing and hiking in these boots all season in both lift-absent and lift-present terrain. No complaints. Did a medial ankle punch on both (I need this in every boot I’ve ever had). The punch has held fine in this plastic (so there’s hope maybe for Tom up above if he needs to punch that 6th toe).

Only hardware malfunction to report is the cant/cuff alignment rivet fell out of one on a tour. (I did not lock-tite anything after purchase). Called Scarpa in Boulder and they dropped two extra replacement bolts in the mail which arrived in two days, no charge.

They ski well: if you are chasing your friends through day-after resort chop at GS-speeds and skipping off the tops of old bumps, yes, you can easily tell they aren’t stiff and powerful like an alpine boot. On a tour, with flat snow surface (either soft or firm), you’ll never care, you can ski ‘em hard just fine.